MAnnose 



Masses 



Man'nose, a sugar lesiilting from the 

 hydrolysis of cellulose ; MannoceH'- 

 uiose{+ Cellulose), a constituent 

 of gyniuosperni wood, which on 

 hydrolysis yields abundant JIan- 

 NOsE (Hertrand), 



Manom'eter {fxauhs, rare, scanty ; 

 fxfTpou, a measure), apparatus to 

 measure the i»ressure of gas or 

 liquid. 



Mantiss'a (Lat. , an addition or make- 

 weight), a su])plement. 



Man'tle, used by Grew for oerca : ~ 

 Cells, tapetal cells ; -^ -fi'bres, 

 A. A. Lawson's term for the fibres 

 of tlie nuclear-spindle ; ~ Lay'er, a 

 layer of tapetal cells ; ^ Leaf, 

 Goebel's term for the pro.strate, 

 half-enveloping barren frond, as in 

 Platycrriuin alcicGrnc, Desv., as dis- 

 tinct froui the fertile frond. 



Manu'brium (Lat., a handle), a cell 

 which projects inward from the 

 centre of the shields in the globule 

 of Char a. 



man'y-head'ed, M'ith many distinct 

 buds on the crown of a root. 



Ma'qui, a Coi-sican term f-a- dense 

 thickets of shrubs, mostly evergi'oen. 



marattia'ceous, akin to or resembling 

 the fern genus Mavaitia. 



mar'bled, stained with irregular streaks 

 of colour. 



marces'ceut, inarccs'cens (Lat., wither- 

 ing), withering without falling olf; 

 mar'cidus (Lat.), withered, shrunk. 



Mar'cor (Lat., decay), welting; flac- 

 cidity caused by want of water. 



Margel'la (dim. of viargo, a border), 

 the elliptic ring round a stoma 

 formed by the guard-cells. 



Mar'gin, Mnr'ffo, the edge or boun- 

 dary line of a body ; mar'ginal, mar- 

 gina'lis, placed upon or attached to 

 the edge ; ^ Bast, a strong develop- 

 ment of a hypoderm on the edges" 

 of the leaves of certain families, as 

 Ilicineae and M^Tsineae ; ~ Glands, 

 glands on tlie incurved margin of the 

 pitchers of Nepenthes ; -^ Gr07/'mg- 

 point, in a flattened member when 

 the marginal cells remain embryonic 

 and capable of growtli ; '-' Ov'ule, an 



ovule borne on the margin of a car- 

 pel ; ~ Pits, pits which traverse the 

 outer walls of the epidermis in leaves 

 (Solereder) ; ~ Veil, a inembrane en- 

 closing the hymenium in the young 

 stage of Agarics, the Vel um part' ale ; 

 Margina'les, leptosporangiate Ferns 

 whose sori ai;i3e from the margin 

 of the frond (Bower) ; cf. SurEii- 

 FiciALES ; mar'ginate, marffina'ttt', 

 marqina'rhis, broad-brimmed, h\v- 

 nished with a margin of distinct 

 character ; raar'gined, marginate ; 

 marginici'dal (caedo, I cut), dehis- 

 cent by the disjunction of the united 

 margins of the carpels, a form of 

 septicidal dehiscence ; Mar'go thal- 

 lo'des, the rim of the shiefd of a 

 Lichen formed by the ihallus. 



marine', miri'nus [LbX., pertaining to 

 the sea), growing v.-ithiu the influence 

 of the sea, or immersed in its v/aters. 



marit'imu* (Lat., marine), belonging 

 to the sea, or confined to the sea- 

 coast. 



Mark'inge, used of various forms ot 

 thickening on the cell- wall, aa 

 annular, reticulated, spiral, etc. 



mannora'tus (Lat., marbled), having 

 veins of colour, as some marbles. 



Mar'ram-grass association, formed of 

 Ammnphila, on sand dunes. 



Mar'row, used by Blair for the pith. 



Marsh plants = Helophytes. 



marsu'pial (fiapavTriov, a pouch), geo- 

 calycal Or pouch -fruited, used of 

 certain Hepaticae ; Marsu'pium, the 

 fruiting receptacle of the same ; 

 marsu'pioid, [eWos, resemblance) = 



MAKSUPIAL. 



mas, mas'culus, masculi'nus (Lat.), 

 male ; staminate, or with corre- 

 sponding structures. 



masked, ]jersonate. 



Mass, (1) usually written Mast; (2) 

 Mass, pi Masses, used by Sir J. E. 

 Smith for Sonus, Sohi. 



Mas'sa (Lat., a lump), the mass or 

 substance of a body ; '~ semina'iis, 

 the ilesh of some Fungi (Lindley) ; 

 ~ sporoph'ora ; — thecig'era, the 

 sporangia of some Fungi (Lindley) ; 

 Mas'ses, (1) collections of anything 



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